So I get an email from my daughter.  She simply states, "Your blog is a little out dated."  Yes, dear!  I know that.  It's no revelation here!  I've just been too busy! 

I don't even know the last time I blogged, that's how busy I've been!  I know we had snow on the 11th of June and I meant to blog about that.  Never got it done!  I know my goats have both had their kids and I meant to blog about that.  Never got it done.  I know I've been working hard putting in my garden, which is behind schedule due to the rain, snow and cold, so that's where all of my energy has gone.  I come in the house so tired I just clean up and fall into bed.  I don't even get in any reading time, which is what I normally do before falling asleep to relax.

Yes, my goats have both kidded.  My Sweet Pea had twin chocolate colored girls last Thursday the 12th.  Maybe that snow storm helped bring on the labor, but I don't think so.  She was 3 days late.  Then I came home today to two new little ones in the barn.  Miss Snow (or Maa Maa) had a boy (another chocolate latte) and a cream colored girl with a white saddle across her back.  Just adorable!  I need to get some better pictures to show you all.

For now I will post a blog post I had started a while back, but wanted to add pics to it, so here you go!  The red print is the update!

You just can't imagine the eggs and chicks around here.  The night before last, or should I say 4:30 in the morning, I awoke to birds chirping and the dog barking.  I assumed the next batch of turkey poults were hatching in the incubator.  I went back to sleep.  Upon waking I checked out the incubator and only saw one poult.  One little turkey can be noisy, but not as noisy as what I heard at 4:30 am!  Then it started again.  The day before my son thought he'd heard birds chirping in the house.  We often get birds that come down the chimney, but we had a screen put on the cap and thought that had taken care of the problem.  Wrong!  There's a nest in the cap of our chimney!  So the birds lost out.  I called the chimney sweep and had it cleaned.  It was getting too cold in here.  Although we have hot water heat, as my luck would have it, it was not working properly.  I've worked on those zone valves before and this time the zone valve won!  The chimney is clean, the birds have moved on and there were no babies in the nest, just eggs.

We also have a little nest of Rosy Finches in a hanging basket on the front porch.  There are no flowers planted in there yet, so they are safe.  It's been fun to watch them. 

Then there's the incubator!  At the moment there are 7 turkey poults in there.  I will need to prepare a box for them in the morning and get them started on some feed!  I sold those 7 to a neighbor as well as 3 of the others the hen raised, so I am down to 4 baby turkeys, shown here.

So along with the other chicks I've blogged about, we are a regular bird farm around here!